Studio Publishing: 25 books

Suddenly, Cassandra's body stiffened. Her fists clenched. Her eyes were opened wide, unblinking. After about ten seconds, her body relaxed and her fists unclenched. "Daddy!" she screamed, panic in her voice. Running out of the den, she headed for the back door, out into the yard, and over to where...

Author-historian Jeff R. Lonto's presentation on the history of radio and television in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that he gave for the St. Paul Radio Club's annual banquet at the University of St. Thomas in 2014. In his speech, he discussed the early experiments with radio at the University...

Sonny's Dream II: a story which teaches children how to discern their choice making. Sonny, a fully grown-up grizzly, enjoys his power in his land. All other animals and birds were so afraid of him that they left Sonny alone. He had no idea what he'd done. Soon his mother came back in his dream and told...

Sonny's Dream: a story which teaches children how to conquer their fear. Sonny, a young grizzly bear, lives happily in Alaska wilderness with his mother, but he has bad dreams - giant red "Monster Fish" swim through his sleep. Sonny's mother teaches him that there is no reason to be afraid, and after...

Grandmother's story of the Chinese zodiac animals: Naomi wondered why there is no Year of the Cat in the Chinese Zodiac. So when Naomi's grandmother called from Japan, Naomi asked her to explain. Grandmother told Naomi the altered story about zodiac animals from great Old China, how twelve animals raced...

New Holland is coming.  This submerged city of organized lawlessness built to cruise the international waters of the world will soon be making its way to a port near you, but before it can even be constructed, the wealthy Kuglers will have to be talked into sponsoring the project by young Mick,...

"All of these stories could have happened...maybe." An underground radio station with a mysterious "seductive" voice. A psychedelic party at Grandma's house. The friendship between a lonely young woman and a 12-year-old boy. A rock 'n' roll band that tried to "get with the...

In the summer of 1970 there was a slew of bomb scares in Minnesota, particularly in the Twin Cities. Dynamite blasts at a federal building in Minneapolis and at a department store in St. Paul caused serious damage and injuries. That was followed by numerous bomb threats throughout the region, including...

It’s the early 1980s. A small-time rock band plays the dive bars and dreams of bigger and better things. A young dude who writes lyrics, posts flyers and sends out publicity packets for the band gives his perspective from behind the scenes as the group deals with drunken audiences, records an album,...

“The booze sure did flow at Grandma's house. That's where the action was. Her name was Henrietta. We kids just called her Grandma Henry. She was a big woman, a matriarchal type. She wore pointed cat-eye glasses, chain-smoked, owned a couple of street-corner bars and was not afraid to express an...

At the Delaney family get together in the summer of 1973, while adults drank and socialized, kids played and chased one another in and out of the house, and Uncle Mel snapped pictures everywhere, teenage cousins Tom and Terry were hanging out up in the attic, talking about girls and stuff while listening...